Accident American Aviation AA-1 Yankee N5630L, Tuesday 25 April 1972
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Date:Tuesday 25 April 1972
Time:12:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic AA1 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
American Aviation AA-1 Yankee
Owner/operator:
Registration: N5630L
MSN: AA1-0030
Year of manufacture:1968
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Category:Accident
Location:near Salinas, CA -   United States of America
Phase: Take off
Nature:Training
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Investigating agency: NTSB
Confidence Rating: Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities
Narrative:
student entered spin doing stalls about 6000 ft.Ip waited 3 turns bfor recovry attempt.Un recover.

Accident investigation:
  
Investigating agency: NTSB
Report number: OAK72FVM31
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 4 months
Download report: Final report

Sources:

NTSB

Revision history:

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25-Feb-2008 12:00 ASN archive Added

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